Disabled children, vulnerable adults and hundreds of council employees will all bear the brunt of Kirklees cuts over the coming years.

Kirklees has suffered roughly 40% cuts to its spending power and leaders were shocked when further huge cuts to its allocation were announced in December – just weeks before crucial spending decisions had to be made.

The borough will receive about £50m less per year from the government and finance chiefs have calculated they are about £84m short of money over the four-year period.

Overall funding will shrink from £265m a year to £221m by 2019/20.

Reserves have already been used to fill a £12m gap in this year’s budget and a further £15.7m of reserves will be used in 2016/17 to balance the books.